Ali 'Imran 76: No! Whoever keeps their word and abstains from sins should know that Allah likes those who abstain from sins.

A. Metin Saruhan · 9 December 2017 · Ali 'Imran

Translation

No! Whoever keeps their word and abstains from sins should know that Allah likes those who abstain from sins.

Tafsir

Allah (swt) has revealed the truth to the people, and the truth is not what they say, those who disbelieve in Allah and the Hereafter, those who turn away from Allah and do not accept the religion of Islam. They are people who speak in their own interests, who make promises and do not keep them. They are people who do not listen to their Lord and turn their backs on Allah in the face of their worldly interests. Do not believe them and do not listen to their words. Because they are liars. Even the testimony of liars is not accepted in Islamic law. In this respect, it is the promise of the Lord that is true.

Whoever makes a promise and fulfills it in the fear of Allah and refrains from evil deeds, Allah loves such people. Such people are the pious people who have submitted to Allah with their hearts. These are the people who spread truth and justice in the earth and make people aware of Allah's commands.

What is said in the video

Surah Al-Imran, verse 76.

No, says Allah Almighty, the truth is not what they say. How beautifully He puts it. You know how they say oppressing the unlettered brings us no sin, how they say taking the property of the unlettered brings us no sin, now Allah Almighty answers that. No, the truth is not what they say, He says. Whoever fulfils his word and guards against evil, let him know that Allah loves those who guard against it, He says. Well, that is justice. You are to keep your word. Your word. What does the Prophet say? Who takes on the character of Allah? Who? And Abu Bakr as-Siddiq says: O Messenger of Allah, how many of them do you have?

The Messenger of Allah says: I lack either six or seven of them. So much had he taken on the character of Allah. Yes, so what does it say: if he guards against evil, let him know that Allah loves those who guard against it. Who is as true to his word as Allah, says Allah Almighty. According to these verses, Allah Almighty, addressing man as His counterpart, of the people who attain the honour of speaking with Him, within their own beliefs with tolerance, not with others but with their brothers within the religion of Islam, with their tolerance and befitting human dignity. Capability, and his Lord taking him as His counterpart, in the case of man being taken as His counterpart for Allah Almighty does not speak like this with any other being.

The way people talk. He always commands them, He has programmed them. Only man has He left free in his will and taken as His counterpart. For this reason, if man cannot know this honourable place of his, then what does Allah Almighty say to that man? They are like four-legged beasts roaming the earth, He says. They are like four-legged beasts. So if man knows this honourable creation of his, knows that he is addressed by his Lord, knowing that tomorrow, on the Day of Judgement, he will be called to account before his Lord, in the world with dignity, not pride like that, but dignity. What does this dignity mean? What kind of dignity?

With honour. What kind of honour? When you come to the House of Allah, He says. The House of Allah. While circling it, set your feet on the ground and with dignity, your heads (?), walk around with honour, He says. You are in your Lord's presence. You are that much before Allah Almighty, that is, before Him. He does not much want to see you in such helplessness. Dignity, that is, man's creation. His creating you as a human. Honour, your attaining His creation. Your attaining that honour. And walk with your head held high, He says. Today you are in My presence. Sir, so man guards against evil. And in a way befitting humanity and man, honourable, dignified, upright, honest and strong-willed, knowing himself, when he comes before Allah Almighty at least to Allah with a fine load of good deeds, aware that he is going, going there like that, with a sincere heart, before Allah Almighty, sir, at least without his head bowed to the ground, the state of the people who go and the state of the others are very different.

So those who guard against evil for Allah Almighty, let them know that Allah loves those who guard against it. How does He love them? There He welcomes them with a smiling face. With a smiling face. They say: is Allah seen? Do you worship an Allah who is not seen? An Allah who is not seen? An Allah free of form? That is, did a formless Allah create you? Yes, He is free of any specific form. You cannot call Him a specific form. But He has a true form. What is His true form? It is what your Lord told you, you, the two (?). Yes, you saw it there too. At the Supreme Court, too, you will see Allah. What does He say? Do not speak today in His presence.

Do not dispute in His presence, He says. Be silent, He will say to him. In His presence. A verse. I am not saying it. Allah says this. This is a verse. So people unaware of these say, no, Allah is seen like the sun, supposedly. No, He is seen like something or other, supposedly. No, He is not seen in Paradise, supposedly. No, it is this or that and so on. No, He was seen (?). It is not like that. And He will welcome you with a smiling face. With a smiling face. Allah Almighty by making the truth known to people, the truth is not what they, that is, those who deny Allah and the hereafter, who turn away from Allah and do not accept the religion of Islam, say.

What is it? Their saying: by oppressing the unlettered we incur no sin, by taking their property we incur no sin, sir, Allah Almighty refutes. No, He says. The truth is not what they say. What is the truth? Whoever fulfils his word and guards against evil, let them know that Allah loves those who guard against it. Allah Almighty, by making the truth known to people, the truth is not what they, that is, those who deny Allah and the hereafter, who turn away from Allah and do not accept the religion of Islam, say.

The truth is not that. What were they saying? The unlettered, sir, in taking their property there is no sin upon us. The truth is not that, He says. They are people who speak in line with their own interests, who give their word and do not keep it. People who, before worldly interests, do not listen to their Lord, who turn their backs on Allah. Do not believe them and do not listen to their words. Because they are liars. In Islamic law even the testimony of liars is not accepted. For this reason, what is true is your Lord's promise. What is true. Whoever gives his word and fulfils it fearing Allah, and guards against the evils he might do, Allah loves such people.

Because such people are God-fearing people who have surrendered to Allah from the heart. They are people who, spreading truth and justice on earth, make Allah's commands known to people.